US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 24 for "Unit cell structures including stiffening patterns" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,771, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Unit cell structures including stiffening patterns" was invented by Apostolos Karafillis (Lynn, Mass.), Jonathan H. Kerner (Lynn, Mass.), Eric Dean Jorgensen (Lynn, Mass.) and Leonardo Ajdelsztajn (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a structure of an engine component, including a first plurality of unit cells offset from a neutral plane in a first direction, a second plurality of unit cells offset from the neutral plane in a second direction, a plurality of nodes joining...